Promote Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image “I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Promote Should Sure Writers Writing
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power… — Stephen King Copy Share
I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice,… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Create your own future; you are your own artisan. Promote your own brand; you are your own marketer! You've got the hands to do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in yourself, you begin to attract to yourself more and more of those helpful things that may exist all about you. In other words, constructive forces attract constructive forces; positive forces attract positive forces. A growing mind attracts elements… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share
We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie. — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use it to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
